The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

on a short pleasure trip. accompanied by his |
family.
Colonel Oran Perry, his numerous friends will |
be glad to learn, is some better of his rheumatic
troubles. and was able to sit up short time yes
terday.
Colonel Horace Scott is looking after the con |
struction of an extension of the Nashville Chat |
tanooga & st. Louis road, or q branch twenty |
seven miles in length.
II is understood that on the appointment OF |
Robert Blee general superintendent OF the Bee
line system e. A. Peck will succeed Mr.. Blee as |
superintendent of the divisions lying between |
Cincinnati and Cleveland.
There were transferred over the Belt road in |
the month of February $3.50 cars. against r.
1873 in the corresponding month 1886, against 49,.
$50 in 1885, against 28, 900 in 1884, against 90
SO6 in 1883 and against 21.483 in 1882.
President Ingalls,, of the c., l., st. L. & G.,
has purchased five thousand tons of steel rails
weighing sixty seven pounds to the YARD FIJI
teen hundred tons are now being delivered and
will at once be put into the track on the eastern
division.
E. II. Scott seems to have been invested with
more authority as manager of the Indianapolis,
Peru 81 Chicago road. Over his own signature
he is issuing ANIMALS for the year 1887. For
few weeks past most everybody on the line OF
that road if he rode it, paid his fare like
little man.
The Wabash has commenced closing its hos
pitfalls. which were established some three years
ago by General Manager Talmage. 1t will be
remembered that his enforced taxation to sup
port these hospitals the monthly wages OF the
boys seriously objected to that an ugly
strike was barely avoided.
j. A. Moore has been appointed general man
| ager of the Commercial Express fast-freieht
| line at Buffalo, in place of T. Tandy. who has
gone tc Montreal as the general freight agent OF
| the Grand Trunk railway. r. Dowle has been
| appointed manager of the Great Eastern line at
| Detroit, in place OF MIR. Moore
| A. A. Tamage, gensral manager of the Wa
bash, st. Louis 81 Pacific, has issued the follow
| ing notice: s'On and after March 6, 1887, the
prior to Feb. 1, and which have heretofore been
| honored, will no longer be good on lines under
the jurisdiction of J. M. Cooley. receiver"
| Yesterday. March l. the Lake Shore freight
| department discontinued issuing orders for ship
pers' mileage books. The have been selling very
rapidly of late, and shippers were evidently
stocking up. The passenger department still
issues mileage books to the general public at $25
each, but there is practically no demand for
| them
Jumping on to moving trains over the Union
| tracks is again becoming entirely too common.
| A few arrests a couple of months ago for the
| time being broke up the practice, but the boys
| seem to have forgotten all about it and again
hanging about the tracks, and in few days the
| papers will publish account of one or more
| being cut to pieces by a moving train.
There were received and forwarded at this
| point last month a total of I9.08S freigbtcars,
of which number 8,439 were loaded cars. In
| February, 1885, there were handled at this point
a total of So, $50 cars Of which number 81, 100
| were loaded. From the above statement it will
| be that 2, 69l fewer loaded were
| ceved and forwarded this year than in Febru-
ary 1856.
] There was handled at the city freight depots
| of the Pennsylvania lines in the month of Feb
ruary 1907 carloads of freight, against 1880 in
the corresponding month of 1886. In the month
19, 504, ia pounds of freight were handled at the
depots against Is, 1886, 405 in FEBRUARY, 1886 The
use of larger cars accounts for the proportionate
| ly larger increase in tonnage than in the number
of cars loaded and unloaded.
Among the important railroads which have
announced their determination to abolish the
pass system are the Pennsylvania. the Union
Pacific, and St Paul and Michigan Central.
This decision is not accepted by all roads. how
ever, and the claim is made by some Western
companies that they have right under the law
to allow such mplimentary transportation as
they see fit, so that it be not for the purpose of
influencing business and declare their intention
of doing till the law is clearly interpreted to
mean otherwise.
The Wabash settlement is again under way.
It is expected that this week the purchasing
committee will pay off the receivers certificates
take title to the road and organize as the ST.
Louis & Western, with almost an entirely now
board of directors. It is doubtful if the East
ern lines are acquired by the COMMITTEE, except
| by another foreclosure and the reorganization
as an independent organization with much
celebrity as possible. The St Louis s. Western
will be organized with only half the capital Of
the old company.
, accommodations the Union Depot affords and
| pay the least money Of any leasing line under
their understanding of the leasing privileges.
Trains of other leasing lines Usually are run on
the tracks outside of the Union Depot, while the
trains of the c., a. 6 l. are almost invariably
run into the depot Were the company a
: poverty stricken one, there might be some SYM
pathy with them in the suits for rental on the
| Union Railway I'M
, is of the wealthiest companies running
trains into the Union Depot, and pays as large
dividends to stockholders as does any road in
this State or in Ohio. If there is to be and dis
elimination it should be in favor Of the l.. D. &
|, S., the l.. P & c., the l., B. & W., which have
hard shedding to make both ends meet
8 Preparations are in progress at the headquar
. ters Of the railway mail service for the WEIGHING
n of mail matter, which this year begins on April
l. Under the law, the weight of the mails car
ried by the various railroads throughout the
: country must be taken every four years for the
= purpose of revising the statistics and fixing the
;, compensation of the railway companies, which
is determined by the weight of the mails carried
J., A circular is to be issued under date of March
= | giving full instructions to postal clerks in the
= matter of taking weights. The work will con
rinue thirty days, and will be done by an equal
. number of government clerks and employe
i. of the railroads 1t will require large amount
o on every road in the United States will have t.
= be weighed at different points on the route BY
II both railroad and government clerks.
The construction that the Pennsylvania Rail
i road Company puts upon the interstate-com
% merce law does not consist. The heavy ship
- pers have been informed that they cannot hav,
- u stipulated rate on their shipments guaranteed
:. during the coming season account of the new
. law. Now every one who knows anything abou
3 that measure knows that there are three very
salient facts bearing on such plea. The frs
is that there is nothing in the interstate com
merce law requiring rates to be raised and if the
j. are raised it is done to suit the railways owl
q exigences; second, that the interstate commerce